Patients who died at places like Morningside Hospital in Portland, were often buried there and never returned home.
Lifelong cemetery caretaker Bob Sam , a Tlingit elder from Sitka, and his daughter Birdie Sam at a March 9 ceremony to honor the souls of hundreds of Alaska Native people who died at a government-funded asylum throughout the 1900s.
They included a disproportionate number of Alaska Native people, and in many cases, their families never saw them again. : Well, it’s not far removed from them. In some cases, this is their grandparents. These are their great uncles, you know, that their family lore goes, “Oh, Uncle George was sent out” — “was sent out” is the term. And that’s all that was known.
And so it’s not a surprise. And this was before they had this researcher to look into it more for their tribe, but their suspicions were exactly correct. She already had readily available, these deeds and through the Lost Alaskans Project, was able to look through the names and match the names of people that both sold land — “sold land,” I’m using quotes — and were sent to Morningside.
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